Pegmatite rock with apatite crystals and pyrite?

fuss

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Found it protruding from a collapsing bluff along the Lake Michigan shoreline in SE Wi. Ok so the green mineral's have a white streak and have a hardness of 5, but interestingly they also seem to have dark inclusions in them (if you expand images 2 and 3 you will see this as well as the Pyrite? in image 3). If its not apatite what other options are there? same goes for the supposed pyrite. Thx.

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Looks like some kind of amphibole, or a partially saussuritized (hydrothermally altered) plagioclase feldspar (altered partially to epidote).

Could be something else entirely, but that is the most likely. Definitely not apatite though :)
 

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